Planting the urns

on getting all the spring garden chores done. I was only able to get to the urns and barrels planted this past week. We chose to keep things simple on the urns. Trying to put anything in them other than the spikes and a trailing edger hasn’t worked out so well in the past. They survive, but never seem to grow so they just look spindly and sad. This year, I just decided to accept it and not even try. The result is that we have gone with an extra large large spike in their centres and then just a ring of the golden-toned Creeping Jenny plants around the edges. I like the golden-green colour against the black of the urns and they tend to develop nice long trailing tendrils. I’m hopeful that they are not too tender to stand up to the heat and full sun all the urns get. We’ve had so much rain that I haven’t had to worry about watering so far, but we’ll keep an eye on them if/when the cool rainy weather ever stops.